Disaster relief efforts: An update

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 211-223

  Paul, Bimal Kanti ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Development; Disaster relief; NGOs; Sources of support; Structural changes

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DISASTER RELIEF; NATURAL DISASTER;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33751426724     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993406ps139oa     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Abedin, N. 2000: Management of rural development in Bangladesh: an overview (1971-present). Asian Profile 28, 76-82.
2. Ahluwalia, I.J. and Hussain, Z. 2004: Development achievements and challenges. Economic and Political Weekly 39, 4013-22.
3. Alam, J. 1988: Organizing the rural poor and its impact: the experience of selected non-governmental and governmental organizations in Bangladesh. Economic Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific 39, 33-42.
4. Albala-Bertrand, J.M. 1993: The political economy of large natural disasters, with special reference to developing countries. Oxford University Press.
5. Alexander, D. 2000: Confronting catastrophe. Oxford University Press.
6. Autier, P., Ferir, M., Hairapetien, A., Alexanian, A., Agoudjian, V., Schmets, C., Dallemagne, C., Leva, M. and Pinel, J. 1990: Drug supply in the aftermath of the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Lancet 335, 1388-90.
7. Barnett, B.J. 1999: US government natural disaster assistance: historical analysis and a proposal for the future. Disaster 23, 139-55.
8. Bebbington, A. 2004: NGOs and uneven development: geographies of development intervention. Progress in Human Geography 28, 725-45.
9. Benson, C., Twigg, J. and Myers, M. 2001: NGO initiatives in risk reduction: an overview. Disasters 25, 199-215.
10. Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I. and Wisner, B. 1994: At risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability, and disasters. Routledge.
11. Bolin, R. and Stanford, L. 1999: Constructing vulnerability in the First World: the Northridge earthquake in Southern California. In Oliver-Smith, A. and Hoffman, S.M., editors, The angry earth: disaster in anthropological perspective. Routledge, 89-112.
12. Brock, T.V. and Paul, B.K. 2003: Public response to a tornado disaster: the case of Hoisington, Kansas. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 26, 343-51.
13. Brown, G. 2005: Making a tragedy out of a disaster. The World Today 61, 7-8.
14. Cowen, M. and Shenton, R. 1996: Doctrines of development. Routledge.
15. Cuny, F.C. 1983: Disasters and development. Oxford University Press.
16. Cutter, S. 1996: Vulnerability to environmental hazards. Progress in Human Geography 20, 529-39.
17. del Ninno, C. and Dorosh, P.A. 2002: Maintaining food security in the wake of natural disaster: policy and household response to the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. Journal of Bangladesh Studies 4, 12-24.
18. del Ninno, C., Dorosh, P.A., Smith, L.C. and Roy, D.K. 2001: The 1998 floods in Bangladesh: disaster impacts, household coping strategies, and response. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
19. Dynes, R. R. andTierney, K. J., editors 1994: Disasters, collective behavior and social organization. Associated University Press.
20. Elliott, C. 1987: Some aspects of relations between the North and South in the NGO sector. World Development 15, 57-68.
21. El-Masri, S. and Tipple, G. 1997: Urbanisation, poverty and natural disasters: vulnerability of settlements in developing countries. In Awotona, A., editor, Reconstruction after disaster, issues and practices. Ashgate, 1-12.
22. Fowler, A. 1990: Doing it better? Where and how NGOs have a comparative advantage in facilitating development. AERDD Bulletin 28.
23. Hagman, G. 1985: Prevention better than cure: human and environmental disasters in the Third world. Swedish Red Cross and League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
24. Haider, R., Rahman, A.A. and Huq, S. 1991: Cyclone '91: an environmental and perceptual study. Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.
25. Haque, E.C. 1993: Flood prevention and mitigation actions in Bangladesh: the 'sustainable floodplain development' approach. Impact Assessment 11, 367-90.
26. Haque, E. C. and Zaman, M. 1993: Human responses to riverain hazards in Bangladesh: a proposal for sustainable floodplain development. World Development 22, 93-107.
27. Hewitt, K. 1997: Regions of risk: a geographical introduction to disasters. Longman.
28. Ibrahim, N. 2003: Notes from the field. South Asia Newsletter Spring, 8 and 12.
29. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 2005: Hyogo framework for action 2005-2015. UN/ISDR.
30. Jalali, R. 2002: Civil society and the state: Turkey after the earthquake. Disasters 26, 120-39.
31. Jamil, I. 1998: 'Good governance:' tensions between tradition and modernity in Bangladesh. Asian Profile 26, 411-19.
32. Korten, D. C. 1990: Getting to the 21st century: voluntary action and the global agenda. Kumarian Press.
33. Lewis, D. T. 1992: Catalysts for change? NGOs, agricultural technology and the state in Bangladesh. Overseas Development Institute.
34. Lewis, J. 1999: Development in disaster-prone places: studies of vulnerability. Intermediate Technology Publications.
35. Luna, E. M. 2001: Disaster mitigation and preparedness: the case of NGOs in the Philippines. Disasters 25, 216-26.
36. Matin, N. and Taher, M. 2001: The changing emphasis of disasters in Bangladesh NGOs. Disasters 25, 227-39.
37. Middleton, N. and O'Keefe, P. 1998: Disaster and development: the politics of humanitarian aid. Pluto Press.
38. Mileti, D.S. 1999: Disasters by design: a reassessment of natural hazards in the United States. Joseph Henry Press.
39. Mujeri, M.K. 2000: Poverty trends and growth performance: some issues in Bangladesh. The Pakistan Development Review 39, 1171-91.
40. Mustafa, D. 2002: Linking access and vulnerability: perceptions of irrigation and flood management in Pakistan. The Professional Geographer 54, 94-105.
41. _ 2003: Reinforcing vulnerability? Disaster relief, recovery, and response to the 2001 flood in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Environmental Hazards 5, 71-82.
42. O'Donnell, M.R., Bacos, D. and Bennish, M.L. 2002: Nutritional response to the 1998 Bangladesh flood disaster: sphere minimum standards in disaster response. Disasters 26, 229-41.
43. Olsen, C.R., Carstensen, N. and Hoyen, K. 2003: Humanitarian crises: what determines the level of emergency assistance? Media coverage, donor interests and the aid business. Disasters 27, 109-26.
44. O'Riordan, T. 1986: Coping with environmental hazards. In Kates, R.W. and Burton, I., editors, Geography, resources and environment: themes from the work of Gilbert E White, Vol. 11. University of Chicago, 272-309.
45. Ozerdem, A. 2003: Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey. In Pelling, M., editor, Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world. Routledge, 199-213.
46. Parker, D., Islam, N. and Chan, N.W. 1997: Reducing vulnerability following flood disasters: issues and practices. In Awotona, A., editor, Reconstruction after disaster, issues and practices. Ashgate, 23-44.
47. Paul, B.K. 1998: Coping with the 1996 tornado in Tangail, Bangladesh: an analysis of field data. The Professional Geographer 50, 287-301.
48. _ 2003: Relief assistance to 1998 flood victims: a comparison of the performance of the government and NGOs. The Geographical Journal 169, 75-89.
49. _ 2005: Bangladeshi American response to the 1998 Status offerees Agreement (SOFA): an assessment. Professional Geographer 57, 495-505.
50. Paul, B.K. and Bhuiyan, R.H. 2004: The April 2004 tornado in north-central Bangladesh: a case for introducing tornado forecasting and warning systems. Quick Response Research Report #169. Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.
51. Pelling, M. 2003a: Disaster risk and development planning: the case of integration. International Development Planning Review 25, i-ix.
52. _ editor 2003b: Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world. Routledge.
53. Rahman, M. O. and Bennish, M. 1993: Health related response to natural disasters: the case of the Bangladesh cyclone of 1991. Social Science and Medicine 36, 903-14.
54. Ross, J., Maxwell, S. and Buchanan-Smith, M. 1994: Linking relief and development. Institute of Development Studies.
55. Sen, A. K. 1980: Famines. World Development 8, 613-21.
56. Sirleaf, E.J. 1993: From disaster to development. In Cahill, K., editor, A framework for survival: health, human rights and humanitarian assistance in conflicts and disasters. Basic Books and The Council of Foreign Relations, 299-307.
57. Smith, K. 1992: Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster. Routledge.
58. Smith, K. and Ward, R. 1998: Floods: physical processes and human impacts. John Wiley & Sons.
59. Sollis, P. 1994: The relief-development continuum: some notes on rethinking assistance for civilian victims of conflict. Journal of International Affairs 47, 451-71.
60. Spiegel, P.B. 2005: Differences in world responses to natural disasters and complex emergencies. JUMA 293, 1915-18.
61. Streeten, P. 1999: Globalization and its impact on development co-operation. Development 42, 9-15.
62. Susman, P., O'Keefe, P. and Wisner, B. 1983: Global disasters, a radical interpretation. In Hewitt, K., editor, Interpretations of calamity from the viewpoint of human ecology. Allen and Unwin, 263-83.
63. The Economist 2005: Katrina and public housing: a voucher for your thoughts. 24 September, 34-37.
64. Tobin, G.A. and Montz, B.E. 1997: Natural hazards: explanation and integration. The Guilford Press.
65. Townsend, J.C., Porter, C. and Mawdsley, E. 2004: Creating spaces of resistance: development NGOs and their clients in Ghana, India and Mexico. Antipode 36, 871-89.
66. United Nations 2005: Regional workshop on lessons learned and best practices in the response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami. 13-14 June 2005, Medan, Indonesia.
67. United Nations Center for Human Settlements 1994: Sustainable human settlements in an urbanising world, including issues related to land policies and mitigation of natural disasters. 15th session of the Commission on Human Settlements. Unpublished draft theme paper.
68. United Nations Development Program 2004: Reducing disaster risk: a challenge for development - a global report. UNDP
69. United Nations Development Program Department of Humanitarian Affairs 1994: Disasters and development. UNDP.
70. United Nations Disaster Relief Organization 1992: An overview of disaster management. UNDRO.
71. Vakil, A. C. 1997: Confronting the classification problem: toward a taxonomy of NGOs. World Development 25, 2057-70.
72. Varley, A. 1993: Disasters, development and environment. John Wiley & Sons.
73. Watts, M.J. 1983: Hazards and crises: a political economy of drought and famine in northern Nigeria. Antipode 15, 24-34.
74. Watts, M.J. and Bohle, H.G. 1993: The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine. Progress in Human Geography 17, 43-67.
75. White, G.F. 1966: Optimal flood damage management: retrospect and prospect. In Kneese, A.V. and Smith, S.C., editors, Water resources. John Hopkins University Press, 251-69.
76. White, S.C. 1991: An evaluation of NGO effectiveness in raising the economic status of the rural poor: Bangladesh country study. Overseas Development Administration.
77. Wisner, B. 1993: Disaster vulnerability: scale, power, and daily life. GeoJournal 30, 127-40.
78. _ 2001: Risk and the neoliberal state: why post-Mitch lessons didn't reduce El Salvador's earthquake losses. Disasters 25, 251-68.
79. World Bank 2000: World development report, 2000/2001. Attacking poverty. Oxford University Press.
80. Zohir, S. 2004: NGO sector in Bangladesh: an overview. Economic and Political Weekly 39, 4109-13.